Dharma Refined, Website Evolved

As many of us do with a new practice, I have been working with someone to help me on this journey. For the past six months, my talented web designer Michelle–whom I affectionately refer to as my Webinatrix–has been taking me to task. Ours has been a weekly exercise in tough love, replete with accountability meetings, deadlines, homework, and a barrage of challenging inquiries:

“What is your message to the world?”

“What exactly are you offering?”

“Who are YOU?”

“Be more specific. Refine it. Write it again.”

During the design process, I learned that my role in creating this new website has been to refine and articulate my Dharma through photos and writings. On the other side, Michelle’s has been to collect and curate this raw material and create digital magic–magic that reflects my Dharma with integrity and beauty.

Frankly, I’m not sure whose job has been more difficult.

When Michelle asked me what kind of site I envisioned, I answered her in broad descriptors:

Bold and clean, but not boring

Functional but not cold (I’m not into clever bells and whistles)

Equal parts Feminine and Masculine

Expansive, because this is how I feel as I launch into the next era of my own evolution as a teacher and a human being.

But getting these broad strokes to permeate the website was much more challenging than I had imagined. Part of my practice through this work was to be a curious observer, and, boy, was that a powerful experience.

Through this process, I learned that technology is a double-edged sword. It can be used either to degrade or to elevate Consciousness. Michelle and I agreed that we were striving to create a portal for the latter. And, in so doing, I want to share with you some of the wide-reaching aspects of learning I took from this process in the form of a flow:

Each of you is a magnificent work in progress.

-You possess the power to mold and shape your own Dharma.

-Your identity is a fluid, not a solid.

-You are a verb, not a noun.

-You are the result of billions of years of flowing, intelligent evolution.

-Evolution is the process of becoming the human you’ve longed to be and the world needs you to be.

-If you spend a significant part of your day thinking about your self-evolution and how to make the world a better place, then you are an evolutionary.